How to Make Money on Pinterest

I'm sure you've heard of the popular online board called Pinterest. Users "pin" their favorite photographs of all kinds of things like products they like, wedding ideas, recipes, decorating ideas, and all kinds of things they are interested in. It's much like tearing out your favorite photos from a magazine and "pinning" them to a cork bulletin board. It's an idea board. It's a reference board. It's an easy way to collect your favorite items in one place from around the web so you can easily find them later. Users make "Boards" which are basically topics, and they pin images to their boards to keep them organized. Now that you know what Pinterest is, you are probably wondering how you can make money from Pinterest.

I sell custom wedding invitations, as well as iPhone cases, kitchen towels, stickers, kids birthday party invitations, business cards, and novelty products. I have had great success with sharing my products on Pinterest and having them repinned and shared and I earn sales from it.

I am currently looking for people who would like to pin at least 20 of my best selling items a day to their own Pinterest boards. For any pins in which you pin following the instructions below, you will have a referral id number attached to the url of the pin. Any time someone follows that pin back to my product page, and make a purchase of ANY PRODUCT on the website (which has literally BILLIONS of products), you will earn a 15% referral commission, plus volume bonus earnings. This 15% is paid on all products the customer adds to their cart and purchases in that shopping trip, and up to 45 days afterwards, not just the product that you pinned. You are welcome to pin more than 20 pins per day, however I would rather you consistently pin 20 per day, than to pin 50 on one day, then none for 3 days, then 100 more.

You might be wondering....well, what types of products would I be pinning. Well here are some of my BEST SELLERS, so it would in your best interest to start by pinning these. They have already proven to be designs that customers like and buy. Do you think you could pin products like:

Now these are my novelty items, like business cards, address labels, and iPhone cases, but the good commission are actually in the Wedding Invitations. Brides use Pinterest all the time to make boards of all the things they like when they are planning their weddings. They pin reception decor ideas, wedding dresses, and you guessed it, wedding invitations that they like. My wedding invitations get pinned, and repinned like crazy on Pinterest.

You can earn money pinning these too, by following my instructions below to set up a referral id number so your pins can be tracked and referral commission can be paid to you. My average sales order for wedding invitations is around $200 per sale. And you get paid 15%, so that's about a $30 referral commission for each order. And remember the customer doesn't have to buy that exact invitation. If they follow your pin over to the wedding invitation website, and end up buying different wedding invitations, or even tshirts or cards, as long as your referral id number was included in the link, you will earn a referral commission for that sale.

So what type of wedding invitations are my best sellers. Surprisingly, it the rustic country wedding invitations that sell the best. Do you think you could pin items like these?

How to Set Up Your Referral Id Number

In order for your pins to track sales, you'll need a referral id number from Zazzle.com (the company who fulfills the product orders. This is really easy to get. Simply join Zazzle here. Basically all you need is an email address and a password.

Once you have joined Zazzle, make sure you are logged in to your account and then you can start pinning.

Log Into Zazzle

Go to my store links below (or any of the products listed on this page). Once on a product page, click the "Share" button (see picture) and share it on Pinterest. As long as you are logged in, your referral id number will automatically be attached to your Pin.

Pin items to specific boards like "Country Wedding Invitations" "Cool Business Cards" "Cool iPhone 5 Cases" etc. Name your boards things that people would search Google for if they were looking to buy these types of products.

Get as many pins up now as you can, because once the holiday shopping season is here, you'll be happy that your pins had time to be seen and be repinned, and repinned, and repinned. Your original link to the Zazzle product page will remain with your pin, with your referral id attached, even as people repinned your pins. So the more repins you get, the more opportunities for sales.When you hover your mouse over the top of one of your pins, you should be able to see the url at the bottom of your screen. It should have a &rf=1234567890 somewhere in the link. The numbers will be your referral id number, which can be found in your Zazzle account under the "Associates" tab. As long as this referral id number is showing up in the link, your referral id number is attached. If it is not make sure you are logged into Zazzle. Go back and log in again, then repin, and check the pin to make sure the &rf number is there. It may also appear as ?rf=.

How Much Money Can You Make?

Of course, I can't tell you how much money you'll make specifically, but you will earn 15% on any sales that result from a clickover from your pins over to the Zazzle website, even if the customer purchases something else other than what was pinned. There are many people who make a full time income simply by referring sales to Zazzle. How much you will make will depend on your effort and the number of pins you create. The more pins you make, the higher the chance of sales. In addition to the 15% referral commission, you can also earn up to an additional 17% in volume bonus earnings depending on the total sales volume you have each month. See the picture to the right for volume bonus levels. --------------------------------->>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Volume Bonus Earnings

(which are in addition to the 15% you earn for referral commissions)

How will you get paid?

Zazzle pays out earnings once a month, after a 30 day pending period, in which sales are pending, to allow for customer returns. After the sale has "cleared" it will be paid out on the 15th of the following month, as long as you have met a minimum of $50 in cleared earnings (for Paypal payments) or $100 in cleared earnings (for check payments). You can set up your payment settings by logging into your Zazzle account and going to your "account settings" and "seller account" and "Payment Settings". You can enter your paypal address that you want your earnings to be paid to. Or set up for check payments.

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